If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Great, thanks Ben! Yes I'm definitely planning to stay for the classics, was just wondering about running interval to get an idea of how long it would take for the whole field to pass, thanks for the tips

Some of the roads being used for this year's Rally Otago, don't appear to have the better spectator points some other roads used in past years have.
Go through some of the inboards/ video of past years gives you an idea of where the better spectator points are. Kuri Bush Paddon inboard 2016 - https://youtu.be/PScjE2GuZbw (122km/h , 76 mph average in sub-optimal handling car)
Paddon tends to bring out a few extra spectators by his name being on the entry list.
I would expect the running time to be around 2 hours.

If you can stay another week
D1NZ Drifting at Manfield/ Chris Amon circuit - Feilding North Island NZ the following weekend (just depends if it rains at this time of year could be cancelled)
Timaru circuit drifting in summer. https://youtu.be/rthGVJUXKgY?t=12m

Great, thanks Ben! Yes I'm definitely planning to stay for the classics, was just wondering about running interval to get an idea of how long it would take for the whole field to pass, thanks for the tips

Hi Dnx, welcome to NZ. Hope to see you sometime over the weekend. I will private message you some contact details. The big storm that is disrupting travel plans for some teams should have cleared by Wednesday night. Recce on Thursday & Friday likely to be wet. Sunny weather expected on weekend while rally is on.

Damn that's serious! The gravel roads are a natural (well sorta) national treasure. You've been lucky so far...Many of us up here in a region many say reminds them of NZ we have very limited real gravel..Our roads in the woods are covered in crushed rock, and crushed from BIG rock which we have lots of, but its often igneous rock--volcanic and nasty..And crushed means often its the size of lemons or kiwi fruit. Brutal on the undersides and suspension arms.

wish you guys luck. It would be terrible if they started paving or making the roads tarmac.. yuck!

Silver Fern NZ Classic international gravel rally - is in the North Island this time. From Hamilton down the western part turning across the island at Palmerston North and up the East Coast to Rotorua. The east coast stages could be quite dusty at that time of year.